7 – Suikoden Dragon Den Suikoden Index : Walkthrough / FAQ

Neclord is dead and you are back home. At the strategy room, everyone will be talking about the alliance with the Dragon Knights. Unfortunately they aren’t letting anyone into their territory, but you should check out for yourself. At the Dragon Den border west of Antei, you’ll find you can’t go through. Go to Antei and meet Vincent and pay 200 bits for his meal, then return to the border. Vincent will show you a secret way in, east of the guard. Do some recruiting before you go in though. If Kirkis is leveled up in the forties, go to the Great Forest and talk to Rubi again at the Inn (Kobold Village). He’ll join. Eikei at Teien will now join as well, as will Quincy at Garan Fortress. That’s it for now, you still can’t get Leon, Pesmerga, Crowley, etc.

Go north a screen or two and east when you can for a Goldlet. Follow the path and you’ll come across the Old Book Volume 5. Again, just follow the path for a long while and take the east at the fork for Power Gloves.

West and follow the path and you’ll fall down a cliff near some sleeping dragons. Milia and Futch show up and scold you for being around, and they leave to tell Joshua of your arrival.

Head west on the World Map, and once at the Dragon Knight Fortress, head north and meet Fuma the ninja. He’s kind of hard to see, but his red head will stick off to the north. He joins, and then head inside the building. Go to the north and talk to the maid to rest and save, then talk to Kreutz in the northwest corner. Humphrey knows him so he joins, now go upstairs. Talk to Joshua, who isn’t sure about joining with you as the dragon’s are powerless. He mentions Liukan being able to find a cure so bring Liukan to the Dragon Knights Fortress.

When Liukan is there, you’ll go take a look at the Dragon’s. Evidently they’ve been poisoned intentionally by someone and Liukan sends you off to Seek Valley to retrieve one of the ingredients to wake them. Return to the Dragon Knight Fortress and go by the red dragon, Thrash. He’ll take you (with Milia) to Seek Valley. There are some tough monsters here, another great place for building up. You’ll see the Queen Ant back from the Ted Soul Eater days.

Upon entering, head east and get the Master Robe. You’ll make your way to a split now, where you should go east first to meet Mace, the ultimate blacksmith. He can sharpen your weapons to level 16 but he won’t join you just yet. Remember his location though. Take the west fork now for a Sound Setting 2, and then go north through the middle path. Continue north for a Mega Medicine and then west for a tough boss.

It’s the Crystal Core. Tough boss, hopefully you have some healers present. I currently have none at Tai Ho and Yam Koo don’t do that sort of thing, but provide their usual ridiculous amount of offense with that tandem attack of theirs. After the crystals are destroyed, he’ll start to do more powerful attacks. Before this he did nothing but physical attacks. When it turns into a little red ball, that’s when the dangerous all-party attacks come in. It’ll continually use a spell similar to Judgement (4th level Soul Eater) on the entire party that takes off around 200 each. That’s why you need that healing. I didn’t have it and nearly died because of it, but the offensive firepower of Tai Ho and Yam Koo prevailed. Hurry and save and get the Cyclone Crystal.

Go north and then west for a Gold Necklace, and then east and north for the Moonlight Weed.

However Windy prevents you from getting it and calls upon Ted. Ted talks to the hero secretly via Soul Eater communication. Don’t give him the rune. Eventually, Ted will regain his senses again and have the Soul Eater take over his body. Soul Eater will now be level four and Windy’s plan will be thwarted yet again. She tries to override the process but the rune rejects her. Milia will grab the weed and then you can Escape Talisman out and return to Dragon Knights Fort. Talk to Joshua and the scene will shift to Futch getting the Orchid in Barbarossa’s garden. He’ll let him go after Futch explains himself, but Windy won’t be so generous. She shoots down Black and then the scene is back at the Dragon Knight’s Fort as Futch is in bed.

The dragons have all the ingredients, with the third being a liver from Black (who died on the way back). With this being done, Joshua and the Dragon Knights will join you permanently. Back at the castle, Krin and Kasumi will be bullshitting over something. Go to the fourth floor to find out, and you’ll meet Taggart. He hasn’t said anything to anyone but he talks to you.

Warren and Viktor have been captured by Kasim Hasil evidently, and Mathiu suggests training for the upcoming battle. Agree to it, and then you’ll have some free time.

Put all the blacksmiths in your party and return to Mace at Seek Valley. He’ll join you finally and now you can get level 16 weapons (although you can’t afford that sort of stuff now probably). You should also talk to Leon at Kalekka now, and he’ll comment on how big the Liberation Army is and tells you to tell Mathiu he thinks so. Talk to Mathiu (it’s important to do this now since he’s not busy with plot-line stuff) and he’ll write you a letter to give to Leon. Return to Kalekka and drop off the letter and he’ll join. Time to go back to Neclord’s Castle. Here, if you return to the very top floor where you fought Neclord, you will find Pesmerga. He is hunting Yuber. Recruit him and if you have enough Stars of Destiny (this applies for all of these last few characters actually) he’ll join. Since you are in the area, why not drop by Qlon Temple and see how Crowley is doing. He will join at this point and he is pretty much the best magician you’re going to find in the game. Pesmerga by the way is probably one of the best fighters in the game.

Now time to go to the Rikon Inn. You may or may not see a black figure to the northwest of the Innkeeper. If he is there, that is Clive, and he’ll join you. He wasn’t there at this point for me so I continued on with the story. This is about it for the optional recruits, although there are a few more I’ll point out later.

To continue the story after the Taggart stuff, go to your room where Mathiu will talk to you privately. He’ll alert you of a spy and say that instead of training you will be attacking Kasim Hasil. Sneaky, this way the spy within the ranks can’t do anything. The next morning, talk to Mathiu in his room and it’ll be time to go “training”. Instead Mathiu will press the attack and Griffith (the guy holding the imperial fort) will try to stall. Don’t buy it though, this is the easiest war battle yet. Recruit Griffith after the battle and he’ll be used as bait for Kasim.

The hero’s task is to take Kasumi and Krin (fuck yeah) and three others to sneak into Moravia Castle while your army attacks other areas.

Choose your party and you’ll be at the Northern Checkpoint. Re-enter the Northern Checkpoint and get the Old Book Volume 7, then use the Blinking Mirror back to the Lake Toran Castle to arm your party (since you couldn’t do this before). At Moravia, you’ll witness enemy soldiers going off to the fortresses that your allies are attacking. Griffith and Mathiu will go inside to stall with Kasim while you go up and save Warren and Viktor. First of all, get that Pink Paint east of you and rest to the northeast. You’ll want to fight around here for a while since Krin is probably level 2 or something. Fortunately you fight large groups of enemies at Moravia and can gain a ton of levels in a short time span. Time to get going now, so go west and get the Taikioku Wear and then go north through a bunch of screens until you get outside. Go east and then north to get in the building on the other side. Continue along until you get to a Mega Medicine, and then go outside again. Krin will be tricky and tie a rope to both sides allowing you to cross. Keep going, grab the Needle, and soon you’ll come to Warren, Viktor and Vincent De Boule in prison!

You’ll save them and then the scene will shift to Kasim and Mathiu.

They’ll be talking about the past, but soon enough Lepant and Humphrey will reinforce Mathiu, and McDohl and Viktor will be right behind. Kasim then surrenders. Re-enter the place, rest, and go to the top floor to let Vincent out and get a Mother Earth Rune. You can’t use an Escape Talisman, so walk down and go to the Northern Checkpoint. You’ll meet some interesting mates, Max and Sancho. They seem a little odd but in all actuality they are a part of the best “Charge Attack” in the game. Also note that Sancho has a pedophile ‘stache.